DOJ claims it has the power to decide who gets Trump’s sweeping 2020 pardon

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December 4, 2025

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Cheney, Kyle

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Politico

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Bernadette Meyler, a Stanford University law professor, said there’s an irony in Trump leaving key pardon decisions up to his Justice Department after persistently claiming that Joe Biden had not personally authorized certain pardons because they were signed with an autopen

“In this instance, it would be Ed Martin, not the president, authorizing a variety of pardons,” Meyler said.